Except you'd long since have driven me from your customer database in disgust and exasperation at my excessively weird taste in customs and clothing. (When we were discussing one of my 26" wheel customs, long ago, I said, brightly:"I'll post this to the list!!!" Grant replied, "Don't you dare.")
Grant, you got me sold way back in the '90s when I heard you say, "We are product driven, not market driven." I did a MBA paper based on Rivendell and that theme. Got an A, too. Long may you wave or thrive or live or whatever it is y'all do. On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Grant Petersen <grant6...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nobody here keeps score, but for the record...if we had a thousand Patrick > Moores, we'd be fat and gorgeous. > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> One -- I won't say problem, but one factor affecting a decision to buy >> from Rivendell or from another online vendor or from a LBS or used or >> whatever, is the "style" of merchandise. I'm fortunately at the time of >> life and at the period in my bike tastes that I have most of what I want, >> and my needs are very, very particular. I have my own likes and dislikes >> about bikes, riding style, and cycling clothing, and my only "generic" >> needs are almost commodity items -- cables, housing, ferrules, sealants, >> lubes, and so forth. >> >> Rivendell offers a very distinct "style" of bicycles and clothing and >> accessories, and for the most part they are not what I want. I'd happily >> order more if the inventory was more to my taste. Also, I'd happily order a >> Roadeo, a Hunq (maybe; I'd want to convert it to disc brakes), a Legolas >> perhaps a Clem, *if* I had the money, but these would be outlier items, >> not the focus of my riding preferences. >> >> As for the generic things, I can buy them as cheaply at LBS's and support >> local businesses. >> >> I suppose my Rivendell-fandom is largely coasting on the 3 customs I've >> ordered, and on the wonderful Wooly Warm outer jersey -- ragg knit?-- with >> tall button collar, rear pockets, trim but not tight cut -- wonderful over >> a base wool LS jersey at temps from, say, 45F down to 35F. If Riv still >> offered that vest in the same style, I'd truly weigh it against an Ibex. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Evan E. <evanellio...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> No matter how often we discuss this topic of right livelihood -- maybe >>> once a year? -- I always find it interesting. >>> >>> By and large, I try to buy merchandise from Rivendell and to buy labor >>> from my LBS. Once in a while, I'll buy an item from an online merchant, >>> particularly if, per Grant's post above, said merchant sounds like an >>> actual business with actual staff, and, yes, if it offers a good deal on >>> something (such as VP Vice pedals) that Riv and my LBS don't stock. >>> >>> I love Rivendell and I love the people there, so I do support them. But >>> today all I have in my Riv shopping cart is ferrules and two tubes. I don't >>> need the tubes. And I've already loaded up on various parts, books, >>> bandannas, and pine tar soap. But come to think of it (duh), maybe I should >>> buy a gift certificate to use toward future purchases. That would give Riv >>> some cash flow -- an advance of sorts. 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